I am trying to organise a group of people working in academia (any career level, academic careers or technical) any that are working on #openhardware and affiliated with #uk institutions. If you are one, or if you know one, could you send me a message (or ask them to send me a message?)
The reason for the group is finding ways to work together and advocate for #openscience#hardware!
Everyone is welcome to our two upcoming open hardware webinars:
Open source CPU and SoC design: The flow, the challenges and a perspective, with SpinalHDL creator Charles Papon on April 11, 13.00 CEST.
And a Tech Talk with Andrew "bunnie" Huang on IRIS: an open hardware project to verify chips. May 2, 11.00 CEST.
An interactive talk with hardware hacker bunnie on his project IRIS (Infra-Red, In-Situ) inspection of silicon.
It seems to have happened without much fanfare, but about a month ago @purism has released the Librem 5 hardware layouts under GPLv3 (as original PADS and converted KiCad projects), joining the schematics that were already available from the start.
We need #openhardware with #bluetooth so we can link them it to #MyGNUHealth.
Currently we have @pine64eu smartwatch, but we'd love to integrate scales, glucometers, blood pressure monitors...
Just reply to this toot or send us a message if you know of any device. We'd love to test them!🤗 #GNU#GNUHealth#pinephone#PineTime
"April 15th, 2024, in the Top 10 Most Secure Mobile Phones to Buy in 2024, the cybersecurity-focused firm Efani, has ranked Purism Librem 5 as as the #1 most secure phone for the year 2024."
And yes, I have a #Librem5#Linux phone. I'm using it as my daily phone for nearly two years. It is great to be totally in control of your phone, and to have total #freedom to use your phone the way you like.
State of Open Con 24 is now live https://stateofopencon.com/
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"I'm 15 years old and have a passion for electronics and programming.
I designed [the Paxo] phone from A to Z to make it open-source, inexpensive and do-it-yourself."
I was running around in the #cccamp23 with these sound reactive earrings and quite a few people were curious about them. They are made by my friend ( #openhardware#oshw extensively documented! ) and you can find all info here: https://github.com/openKolibri/halo-90
I am watching the "State of Open Source Hardware" keynote by Alicia Gibb of @oshwassociation. They mentioned in the keynote they are running a bot at @OSHWA_OSHW. Went to go check it out and am now its 25th follower...
Der Welt muss momentan bewiesen werden, dass eine alternative #Wirtschaftsform möglich ist. Open Hardware hat das Zeug dazu, einen wichtigen Beitrag zu leisten. Mit Open Hardware können Dinge weltweit lokal nach gemeinsam erarbeiteten Bauplänen produziert werden. Der Vorteil ist, dass solche Pläne an lokale Ressourcen Verfügbarkeit angepasst werden können. Durch die offen zugänglich und veränderbaren Ideen ist zugleich eine Weiterentwicklung (1)
"OpenWrt, the open source firmware that sprang from Linksys' use of open source code in its iconic WRT54G router and subsequent release of its work, is 20 years old this year. To keep the project going, lead developers have proposed creating a "fully upstream supported hardware design," one that would prevent the need for handling "binary blobs" in modern router hardware and let DIY router enthusiasts forge their own path."
All great things are made of small things... Today, one of our students achieved proof of principle on turning #singleuseplastic bottles into filament for #3dprinting! Then a #benchy was printed..
From here we scale up production and start making #openhardware out of plastic bottles!!
Tomorrow we're hosting the webinar:
Open source CPU and SoC design : The flow, the challenges and a perspective.
Speaker Charles Papon is the creator of the SpinalHDL, VexRiscv and NaxRiscv projects. He will speak about the tooling involved in designing a CPU and deploying it on hardware. The talk is followed by a Q&A.
It's Alive!! The #openscience lab has moved in (well, almost everything) to its new home!! Interestingly we are occupying an almost abandoned corridor at #universityofsussex, with the goal of bringing needed updates and life to certain lab/#science/#research practices!
If you would like to chat anything open science do send me a message!
Andrew "bunnie" Huang will give a webinar about his project IRIS (Infra-Red, In-Situ) inspection of silicon. A project to facilitate the non-destructive verification of silicon chips.
He'll give a short talk about the project but will leave most of the time for a Q&A as he is interested to hear what people think about IRIS.
Bunnie is an open hardware hacker, and an activist for digital rights.
Join us Thursday May 2, 11.00 CEST. https://nlnet.nl/events/20240502/index.html
NetHSM – A hardware security module with open hardware and open source code: «Unlike proprietary HSM products, NetHSM is the first HSM available as open source, which enables independent security audits, easy customization and avoids vendor lock-in. Only open source allows to verify the absence of back doors.» https://www.nitrokey.com/products/nethsm #HSM#OpenSource#OpenHardware#Security